2006年 02月 5日 日曜日 19:12

Music inspired by traveling, for traveling or about traveling

A while back I visited two different classrooms of second graders listening to Flight of the Bumblebee for the first time. The music brought the students to life. They could hardly remain in their seats. One girl zig-zagged in her seat as if she were a bumblebee. In both classes, the teachers spent the time asking the students to sit still and be quiet. In honor of music that makes me and others squirm like bumblebees, I have created the
traveling wo my passport.

Particularly in the winter, I get the jones to travel. I thought maybe this would pacify my desire until I’m able to pick up and go. It’ll probably only be tortuous and make me want to travel more. Onward with the torture!

Tourist
Jet Sounds
Ground Level
Sun Ra - Space is the Place/We Travel
Thievery Corporation – International Flight
Sun Ra – We Travel the Spaceways
One Way Ride
Bon Voyage

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumble Bee

(there's more - but right now, I'm too sleepy to put them up.)

Just as clarification (and a bit of a rant on “world music”) – the tag is music that is inspired by traveling or movement, not the genre referred to as world music.

Even if someone were to tell me: “It sounds like a pink elephant, with his trunk reaching for the sky while swimming up current in a river of harmony,” I would find this descriptor more helpful than world music.

*now stepping off soap box*

If you have ideas for music that makes you squirm away like a bumblebee – list away. I need more – more – more.